Quotes About Frankness

You know me: I'm always down to be brutally honest.

If I see someone that is awesome or is an amazing player, I'm going to say he's an amazing player. If he looks like he sucks, I'm going to say, 'Hey that guy sucks!'

I don't see the reason for sugar coating anything.

People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

I love insult, it's always honest.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart

though I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart, what?

He was refreshingly, even alarmingly, direct

Don't you think you're being rather morbid?' I asked. 'Yes,' said Megan. 'That's what people always say when you're saying the truth.

deceived by that winning and imposing frankness of manner, which it has pleased Providence to give to the Afghans, as it did to the first serpent…

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

That meant when I wasn't happy about something, I spoke up, often directly and not always tactfully.

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

I'm very candid.

My candor has gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years!

I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.

I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

Though always frank, the novelist was never wholly sincere.